An eight-year-old boy who lost his legs and left hand to meningitis is standing tall after learning to walk on his prosthetic limbs .

TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .

FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .

SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .

HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .

A woman has been left unable to smile after undergoing emergency surgery to remove infected lip fillers .

The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .

IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .

An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .

A woman with a rare allergy to water has told how the condition is so severe it prevents her from KISSING her fiance .

AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .